Hansi Flick sat down in front of the cameras at the Ciutat Esportiva on Saturday with the most enviable set of numbers any Barcelona manager has taken into a September press conference in years — and spent most of it warning against exactly the thing those numbers invite. The Blaugrana are top of La Liga […]
Marcus Rashford‘s permanent move to Barcelona never happened, and for months the assumption was that something must have gone wrong between the England forward and Hansi Flick. It did not. According to Fabrizio Romano, the coach liked him, rated him and enjoyed working with him — and Barça still let him go. Rashford spent 2025/26 […]
Barcelona travel to the Estadi Ciutat de València on Sunday looking for a fifth win from five in La Liga, and the most interesting question of Hansi Flick’s week is not who plays — it is who gets protected. After 90 minutes each in a 5-1 Champions League win over Feyenoord, several of the Blaugrana’s […]
Ronald Araujo has been at Liverpool for a matter of weeks and has already rearranged the conversation about his own future twice. First came the performances. Now comes the paperwork — and according to Fabrizio Romano, the paperwork says something very different from what almost everyone assumed in August. Per Barca Universal, Romano reports that […]
Kylian Mbappe has put his own name forward for the 2026 Ballon d’Or in the bluntest terms he has used yet — and in the same breath handed Lamine Yamal a compliment his rivals will struggle to better. Mbappe on Lamine Yamal, asked which young players he actually enjoys watching, was unhesitating: the Barcelona No.10 […]
Levante vs Barcelona arrives on Sunday with the league leaders in the best goalscoring form in Europe and the home side entirely unbothered by it. Levante captain Roger Brugué has spent the build-up telling anyone who will listen that his team are travelling nowhere and fearing nobody. “Barça is a great rival and they’re coming […]
Barcelona contract renewals are the next job on Deco’s desk. The summer window shut with six new faces through the door and the squad Hansi Flick wanted; what follows now is quieter, cheaper and, in the sporting director’s own logic, just as valuable. Four young players who have earned their place in this team are […]
Deco Pau Cubarsí praise is not exactly a new genre at Barcelona, but the sporting director went further than usual this week. Speaking to RAC1, Deco reached for the highest comparison available inside his own dressing room and handed it to a 19-year-old centre-back. “Cubarsí is the Lamine of the centre-backs, the most impressive talent […]
Pedri 250 appearances is a line that arrived quietly on Wednesday night. While the Spotify Camp Nou was busy with the goals — Lamine Yamal’s free-kick, Raphinha scoring again, Gabriel Jesus opening his account — Barcelona’s No.8 was passing a milestone that, in the history of this club, almost nobody reaches at his age. The […]
Cesc Fabregas has never been shy about saying what he thinks, and the verdict of Fabregas on Barcelona this week is not a complicated one. Watching his old club take Feyenoord apart on Wednesday, the Como coach reached for the same word twice: frightening. Fabregas on Barcelona: ‘they find solutions everywhere’ Fabregas had just overseen […]
The Barcelona third kit is finally coming out of its wrapping. Hansi Flick’s side trained on Friday in the turquoise-tinged gear from the collection, and the shirt itself is set for its competitive debut on Sunday afternoon away at Levante — more than a month after it was unveiled, and after a pre-season in which […]
Barcelona captain Raphinha has been named La Liga’s Player of the Month for August, and it was not even the only award to land on his desk on Friday. Hours earlier, UEFA had picked the Brazilian in their Champions League Team of the Week for the opening round of the league phase. A double recognition, […]
